Any idea what is going on in VSC?

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Jharkhandi

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Recd an email from one of my friends with following 140 cases(not sure if it contains all for the day, but numbers looks like it is close to 100% if not 100%).

I have not verified all of them, but did verify some of those which are approved! Now any idea?

Please take a look:

EAC0****52028 Approved 5/20/2004 Approved/Completed
EAC0****52037 Received 4/12/2004 Received
EAC0****52040 Approved 5/20/2004 Approved/Completed
EAC0****52051 Received 4/12/2004 Received
EAC0****52053 Approved 6/3/2004 Approved/Completed
EAC0****52055 Received 4/12/2004 Received
EAC0****52071 Received 4/12/2004 Received
EAC0****52103 Approved 6/3/2004 Approved/Completed
EAC0****52136 Received 4/12/2004 Received
EAC0****52138 Approved 6/3/2004 Approved/Completed
EAC0****52148 Received 4/12/2004 Received
EAC0****52165 Approved 6/3/2004 Approved/Completed
EAC0****52186 Received 4/12/2004 Received
EAC0****52200 Received 4/12/2004 Received
EAC0****52209 Received 4/12/2004 Received
EAC0****52223 Received 4/12/2004 Received
EAC0****52237 Received 4/12/2004 Received
EAC0****52268 Received 4/12/2004 Received
EAC0****52293 Received 4/12/2004 Received
EAC0****52306 Received 4/12/2004 Received
EAC0****52329 Received 4/12/2004 Received
EAC0****52337 Received 4/12/2004 Received
EAC0****52342 Received 4/12/2004 Received
EAC0****52344 Received 4/12/2004 Received
EAC0****52363 Approved 5/20/2004 Approved/Completed
EAC0****52375 Received 4/12/2004 Received
EAC0****52390 Approved 5/20/2004 Approved/Completed
EAC0****52409 Approved 5/20/2004 Approved/Completed
EAC0****52424 Approved 5/20/2004 Approved/Completed
EAC0****52443 Approved 5/25/2004 Approved/Completed
EAC0****52454 Approved 5/25/2004 Approved/Completed
EAC0****52462 Received 4/12/2004 Received
EAC0****52466 Received 4/12/2004 Received
EAC0****52476 Approved 5/25/2004 Approved/Completed
EAC0****52496 Received 4/12/2004 Received
EAC0****52505 Received 4/12/2004 Received
EAC0****52520 Received 4/12/2004 Received
EAC0****52527 Received 4/12/2004 Received
EAC0****52557 Received 4/12/2004 Received
EAC0****52610 Approved 5/25/2004 Approved/Completed
EAC0****52617 Received 4/12/2004 Received
EAC0****52623 Received 4/12/2004 Received
EAC0****52640 Received 4/12/2004 Received
EAC0****52650 Received 4/12/2004 Received
EAC0****52656 Approved 5/25/2004 Approved/Completed
EAC0****52659 Received 4/12/2004 Received
EAC0****52666 Approved 5/25/2004 Approved/Completed
EAC0****52674 Received 4/12/2004 Received
EAC0****52679 Received 4/12/2004 Received
EAC0****52686 RFE sent 6/3/2004 RFE sent
EAC0****52862 Received 4/12/2004 Received
EAC0****53075 Received 4/12/2004 Received
EAC0****53133 Received 4/12/2004 Received
EAC0****53272 Received 4/12/2004 Received
EAC0****53281 Approved 6/4/2004 Approved/Completed
EAC0****53313 Approved 6/4/2004 Approved/Completed
EAC0****53342 Received 4/12/2004 Received
EAC0****53459 Received 4/12/2004 Received
EAC0****53482 Received 4/12/2004 Received
EAC0****53520 Received 4/12/2004 Received
EAC0****53553 Received 4/12/2004 Received
EAC0****53632 Received 4/12/2004 Received
EAC0****53646 Received 4/12/2004 Received
EAC0****53685 Received 4/12/2004 Received
EAC0****53707 Received 4/12/2004 Received
EAC0****53726 Received 4/12/2004 Received

Speculations welcome.

It is close to 30% approval (28.36%), which is much higher than nurse or special quota. It is close to figure where USCIS changes processing dates, when compared to approval % on immigrationwatch.com.
 
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Just asked him to run on date before April 01, 2004. Here is what I recd:

EAC0****53042 Received 3/24/2004
EAC0****53059 RFE sent 4/19/2004
EAC0****53100 Received 3/24/2004
EAC0****53251 Received 3/24/2004
EAC0****53295 Received 3/24/2004
EAC0****53316 Received 3/24/2004
EAC0****53349 RFE sent 4/27/2004
EAC0****53419 Received 3/24/2004
EAC0****53427 Received 3/24/2004
EAC0****53479 Received 3/24/2004
EAC0****53513 RFE sent 4/28/2004
EAC0****53521 Received 3/24/2004
EAC0****53555 RFE recvd 6/2/2004
EAC0****53596 Received 3/24/2004
EAC0****53603 Received 3/24/2004
EAC0****53682 Received 3/24/2004
EAC0****53703 RFE sent 4/27/2004
EAC0****53707 Received 3/24/2004
EAC0****53711 Received 3/24/2004
EAC0****53742 RFE sent 4/28/2004
EAC0****53815 Received 3/24/2004
EAC0****53840 Received 3/24/2004
EAC0****53893 Received 3/24/2004
EAC0****53911 Received 3/24/2004
EAC0****53980 RFE sent 4/28/2004

Has April 01, 2004 something to do with this processing? (FO memo comes in effect?)
 
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I think what's happening is that USCIS is trying to reduce the backlog for I140 to 2-3 months like it used to be and maybe, I hope, they will focus finally on I485 to do the same ... just a guess. The fact that are approvals in March-Apr 2004 can mean that they are pulling folders from the stack randomly knowing that they have to finish all of them sometimes ... until Aug-Sept maybe.
 
Though I agree that recently they are doing better job, but I am not so optimistic. There were 18 approvals out of 66 cases, and I do not see any big deal here, as in June 4th published dates from CIS, the current date for Nurse’s 140 is Apr 19th, and therefore most of these Apr 12th cases can be from that category. The update of other 47 RECEIVED status cases can be an error, as some one pulled out all the cases for that day.
 
I am not sure either. But I have never seen special cases 30% in number! I agree I have seen close to 18-20% at times(rare but yes it has happened and maybe 1-2% being lucky ones.). This is a huge gap. Did all nurses decide to apply on this particular day?
 
I'm not sure these numbers mean much...?

These could easily be due to a combination of:

+cases which were approved quickly due to the catagory (nurses etc.)
+cases which generated an RFE, RFE received, case approved shortly thereafter

I've often seen some % of early approvals for just about any date that I've checked.

e.g. 10/01/03 has had a bunch of cases approved ever since I started looking at that date, some from quite a while back:

EAC0400151381 Approved 5/13/2004 Approved/Completed
EAC0400151457 Approved 5/24/2004 Approved/Completed
EAC0400151503 Approved 12/15/2003 Approved/Completed
EAC0400151660 Approved 5/10/2004 Approved/Completed
EAC0400151894 Approved 12/31/2003 Approved/Completed
EAC0400152505 Approved 5/25/2004 Approved/Completed
EAC0400152519 Approved 3/23/2004 Approved/Completed


ETA
 
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ETA - if you see closely it is just 2 cases which are approved fast(2 months) out of maybe 20-25 cases?

It is 10% and close to reasonable figure of Nurse quota. What I am trying to say is that 30% is way too high.

First set has mid April 2004 cases(after FO memo) and second set has mid to late March 2004 cases(before FO memo).

Did something happen for mid April cases? Is it continuing for other dates too? I feel nemessis has a point here.
 
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Here is my guess.

I think some percentages of apps should be approved or acted upon inorder for USCIS to post it as official processing date (bi weekly report). so i think they want to get the current processing Date as close as possible to Current date or one or two months behind by begininng of the Fiscal year 05 which starts in OCt 04. (US govt fiscal year is Oct1 to following Sep 30th).
The will need to allocate more resources for new H1b's starting from OCt 01 04 for which i don't think they are hiring ( as a matter of fact there is Hiring freeze last i heard unless it is removed now) new employess. so the resources (ppl/IO) has to be allocated from existing Resources.

so what is the reason for approving certain range apps with certain Receipt Nos which is not in chronological (logical order)??

I think this could be that certain officers were assigned to clear these backlogs(I140s) and they will just pull the apps with certain Range of Receipt Nos from the shelf (or from middle of the earth) and start acting on them. remeber USCIS receives atlaest 4000 to 5000 apps(all kinds) every day (average).

so then why the discrepancy in between certain range of apps if look at the first post of Jharkandi there are approvals for alternative RN and then at the middle there are approvals for 4 straight RN's and then some alternative approvals.

This could be that the apps which are not acted upon were not clearly understood by Immigration officer (IO) and he need further advice/guidance for that . For the apps which he thinks are straight (more like he/she understand it) then he will approve it or send an RFE. The explanation for this could be change in the last updated date on Website but no action on App.

one of my collegue from my company(ND Aug 15 03) got an RFE asking for experince letter from the company he worked for from 1997 to 1999.They wanted it as of today which means the letter should have recent date . That company no longer exists so how is he gonna a get that??

the point is it depends on the IO and how he/she interpets the law and memos. I am sure CIS has docs/checklist for IO's for further explanation of memos/Laws (in plain english). so i think part of the process depends on IO and part when will your app will get pulled or acted upon.

I think most if not all get pulled, the question is when will IO will decide to act upon it based on his understanding of the case (app) and laws/memos

Remember even though most of the ppl on this forum are pretty much straight forward cases EB GC is 5 types. so if you include EB1 ,O1,EB2 Niw, EB2, EB4, EB5 the IO has to act upon it based on the category.

I personally think EB3 is easiest for IO provided it is not labor sub and all the documents are submitted before hand ( one of the reasons why i went for EB3 even though i could have gone for EB2).

Not IOs' are same and may not have same level of understanding of laws and cases.

Just my 0.02 paisa
 
Does not look like all case to me. The range is only b/w 52000 and 53999. I have scanned 1000 140 cases with my RD (i.e. March 22, 2004) and there are about 30 cases in 50001 to 51000
 
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Does not look like all case to me. The range is only b/w 52000 and 53999. I have scanned 1000 140 cases with my RD (i.e. March 22, 2004) and there are about 30 cases in 50001 to 51000
Click to expand...

Could you post your series please and approvals of same? Can you plz scan 50001 to 51000 for Eac04141 ...? :) I do not have Excel.
 
I see one more pont in the cases of mid April 2004.(First one). They have been processed on three dates: 5/20/2004, 5/25/2004 and 6/3/2004 + 6/4/2004, which are a week apart. It is not same as that for nurses that we have seen in past. Those cases were done on one day only. nemessis do you have data about Feb-Mar 2004 (Pre FO memo) and April-May 2004 (post FO memo) for 140?
 
Now somebody explain me:

EAC04***52200 Approved 6/14/2004 Approved/Completed
EAC04***52237 Approved 6/14/2004 Approved/Completed

Same ND as the first one. Anyone doing scan for April 01, 2004 and later cases - please report your outcome. This particular date is 30% done when you add approvals and RFEs! This is fourth round of approvals for this date(once every week for last 4 weeks).
 
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More approvals of same date:

EAC04***52268
EAC04***52293
EAC04***53342

RFE:
EAC04***52679

23 out of 66 done. (35%)
 
NSC is much smaller than VSC- cases are less too - so mobilizing as per FO memo is easier for them. I would not be surprised to see first concurrent approval coming from NSC.

NSC has done good with FPs and 140 time on notice is least for it - I read someone reported 150-180 days for 140 approval time on notice, which is very good. It looks no approvals coming in NSC currently - it is a definite sign of change. The same thing happened in VSC too till last update. After that we saw reasonable number of approvals. But in VSC too there is no concurrent approvals as such - perhaps they are still undergoing changes.

Once changes are in place, NSC will move at a very good speed, esp with FPs done and internal changes starting in April itself - it is best equipped for changes. Allow till middle of July before making opinion.
 
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EAC04***52623 Approved 6/23/2004 Approved/Completed
EAC04***52640 Approved 6/23/2004 Approved/Completed
EAC04***52650 Approved 6/23/2004 Approved/Completed

3 more approved of same date.

2 RFEs sent:
EAC04***52329
EAC04***52344

26 out of 66 approved. (40%).

Anyone keen in speculating/publishing results?
 
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